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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ ## 2025 +- 2025-02-26 [Switching to FreeBSD][41] -- Moving to FreeBSD. - 2025-01-15 [Building Reliably][38] -- Maximum reliability and ease of maintenance over compactness/cleverness. @@ -136,3 +137,4 @@ [38]:posts/2025/bulletproof.html [39]:rss.xml [40]:ancillary/quotes.html +[41]:posts/2025/freebsd.html diff --git a/posts/2025/freebsd.md b/posts/2025/freebsd.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d773cd --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2025/freebsd.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Switching to FreeBSD 14.2 + +_Published 2025-02-26_ + +Brief update from [previous][1]: the website is now being hosted on +FreeBSD 14.2 (RELEASE) and Nginx (1.26+), instead of NetBSD 10.1 and +Caddy (v2.9.1). Here's [the dmesg][2] + +Why make such a change? I finally got to test the network and hardware +performance of my system against a worth opponent (thanks, Ben) and +found the server lacking. FreeBSD has received a lot of Netflix +contributions to directly improve x86_64 performance, so, it stands to +reason that FreeBSD will do better and be a bit more consistent. + +Don't get me wrong, I love NetBSD and found it very clean, simple, and +fully understandable, but I went off the deep end with packages and had +too many ongoing performance quirks to *not* spend the time upgrading +and fixing it. + +[1]:2024/tech-updates.html +[2]:https://gluecode.net/backups/freebsd-T7810-dmesg.txt |